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Constant on Liberty
Constant on Liberty
Benjamin Constant’s ‘The Liberty of the Ancients Compared to the Liberty of the Moderns’ (1819) examines what it means t... Read more
29 Apr 2020
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46mins
Ranked #2
Nietzsche on Morality
Nietzsche on Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche’s masterpiece The Genealogy of Morality (1887) sets out to explain where ideas of good and evil come... Read more
2 Mar 2021
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46mins
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Rousseau on Inequality
Rousseau on Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality (also known as the Second Discourse) tells the story of all human histor... Read more
2 Feb 2021
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47mins
Ranked #4
Weber on Leadership
Weber on Leadership
Max Weber’s The Profession and Vocation of Politics (1919) was a lecture that became one of the defining texts of twenti... Read more
8 May 2020
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44mins
Ranked #5
Hayek on the Market
Hayek on the Market
Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom (1944) was written during the Second World War but Hayek was really worried about ... Read more
11 May 2020
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43mins
Ranked #6
Tocqueville on Democracy
Tocqueville on Democracy
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835/40) can claim to be the best book ever written about democracy and th... Read more
30 Apr 2020
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44mins
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Fukuyama on History
Fukuyama on History
Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History (1992) became associated with the triumph of liberal democracy at the end of the t... Read more
25 May 2020
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46mins
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Bentham on Pleasure
Bentham on Pleasure
Jeremy Bentham’s Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is a definitive early statement of the basis o... Read more
9 Feb 2021
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47mins
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Marx and Engels on Revolution
Marx and Engels on Revolution
The Communist Manifesto (1848) remains the most famous revolutionary text of all. But what was the problem with politics... Read more
1 May 2020
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43mins
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Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics
Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the most remarkable books in the history of ... Read more
28 Apr 2020
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46mins